Done Deal is the first in the series featuring reluctant sleuth John Deal, a South Florida building contractor who has a penchant for stepping into the path of the wrong people. Here, Deal is struggling to rebuild the once formidable DealCo, a development company once headed by his flamboyant father Barton Deal - but little does he know that the piece of land upon which he plans to build a small apartment complex is coveted by a ruthless businessman intent on making a fortune off Major League Baseball's arrival in South Florida.

Accidentally discovering a sinister plot by sugar cane magnate and Cuban e+a7migre+a7 Vincent Luis Torreno, construction businessman John Deal learns of Torreno's dream of a free Cuba and sugar monopoly. Reprint.

Small-time building contractor John Deal's life is unraveling faster than a film reel spinning off a projector. His best friend Barbara Cooper takes her own life—but does she? Unconvinced that Barbara's death is a suicide, Deal begins an investigation that pulls him into the vortex of a scheme of ruthless Chinese gangsters looking to make a killing in the movie industry.

Deal on Ice opens with the murder of John Deal's old friend Arch Dolan, Miami's premier independent bookseller, days after the announcement that a bookselling conglomerate will open its biggest Mega-Media superstore across the street from Arch's emporium. The police say Arch is simply the victim of random urban violence, but Deal is not so sure, and neither is Deal's estranged wife, Janice, who is helping Arch manage his successful store. Their suspicions lead the pair into confrontations with the ruthless head of a huge media chain, a notorious Miami power broker, and a megalomaniacal televangelist. Their sleuthing culminates in a showdown against two of the most chillingly homespun villains ever created, and the discovery of a far more sinister plot than they ever could have imagined.

In the fifth installment of the series, Deal is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Valor, and as a campaign gimmick, the presentation ceremony is held in Miami. During the ceremony, terrorists interrupt with machine gun fire, and Deal and the First Lady are taken captive.

While on his way down to Key West to negotiate a business deal, John Deal stops to assist a young black man who is being tormented by police on a deserted beach road, and when that same black man is found dead two days later, Deal embarks on an investigation that plunges him into a shocking web of piracy and murder.

Hoping to rebuild the family construction business nearly ruined by his late father, John Deal takes a job in Cuba only to find that he has been set up as an unwitting pawn in a plot to rescue an American prisoner from a Castro jail. 20,000 first printing.